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I have trouble with the archiving of this page. If you know how this is supposed to work these days, I'd appreciate a review of my setup, and fixes as necessary. Thanks! Daniel Mietchen (talk) 13:53, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

On this page, old discussions are archived after 90 days. An overview of all archives can be found at this page's archive index. The current archive is located at 2022/05.
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Call for participation in the interview study with Wikidata editorsEdit

Dear Daniel Mietchen,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King’s College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research that develops a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I would love to talk with you to know about your current ways to choose the items you work on in Wikidata and understand the factors that might influence such a decision. Your cooperation will give us valuable insights into building a recommender system that can help improve your editing experience.

Participation is completely voluntary. You have the option to withdraw at any time. Your data will be processed under the terms of UK data protection law (including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018). The information and data that you provide will remain confidential; it will only be stored on the password-protected computer of the researchers. We will use the results anonymized (?) to provide insights into the practices of the editors in item selection processes for editing and publish the results of the study to a research venue. If you decide to take part, we will ask you to sign a consent form, and you will be given a copy of this consent form to keep.

If you’re interested in participating and have 15-20 minutes to chat (I promise to keep the time!), please either contact me at kholoudsaa@gmail.com or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmmFHaiB20nK14wrQJgfrA18PtmdagyeRib3xGtvzkdn3Lgw/viewform?usp=sf_link with your choice of the times that work for you.

I’ll follow up with you to figure out what method is the best way for us to connect.

Please contact me using the email mentioned above if you have any questions or require more information about this project.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards

Kholoud

Wikidata weekly summary #508Edit

 
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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this page!
  • Development
    • We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
    • We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Item International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Conference 2016: Tel Aviv, Israel. 14-18 March, 2016. (Q50025596) author problemsEdit

Hi,

You and you bot created and edited International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound Conference 2016: Tel Aviv, Israel. 14-18 March, 2016. (Q50025596) extensively. In author (P50) there seem to be several authors listed several times (Kullervo Hynynen X 3, Elisa E. Konofagou X 6, Nathan McDannold X 3, Natalia Vykhodtseva X2 , Hao-Li Liu X 2, Cyril Lafon X 6, Vera Khokhlova X 6 etc.). Could you check this issue? Thanks, DGtal (talk) 07:35, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@DGtal: Thanks for checking. This actually appears to be correct in the sense that every author of a contribution (poster, oral etc.) to this conference is listed as an author of this publication, and if people like the ones you listed appear on multiple such contributions, they are listed multiple times at the source. I do not like this practice very much myself, but there are quite a few conference-related publications that use this style of authorship that can result in multiple occurrences of the same author on the same paper. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 19:16, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
I think I understand. So the item doesn't really deal with a scholarly article (Q13442814) but rather is a Conference Summary that should ideally be split up into it's components? DGtal (talk) 07:48, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #509Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
    • Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
    • REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
    • Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
    • Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3. Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: IndoBot (Approved). Task/s: I would like to import all Indonesian schools, more than 100000. The data includes school type, location, and coordinates as well as external identifiers
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikxhibit is a tool that allows anyone, even non-programmers, to create cool presentations of Wikidata, and other sources of data on the web, only using HTML and without any additional programming. Are you interested in creating presentations of Wikidata? We would like to understand your experience with Wikidata to better improve our tool. It would help if you can fill out our survey https://mit.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvZKKlRu2S7C9Fk
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikidata dumps: Due to technical issues the JSON and RDF dumps for the week of March 1st couldn't be properly generated (phab:T300255#7746418). The situation is expected to get back to normal this week.
    • Item with QID 111,111,111 was created
    • Job openings:
      • The development team at WMDE is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and improve the software behind the Wikidata project. Apply here!
      • The WMF Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop Wikidata Query Service. Apply here!
      • Museum of Natural History Berlin (Q233098) is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)
  • Development
    • Data Reuse Days: Preparing for the upcoming Data Reuse Days. Join us! A lot of exciting sessions are coming together.
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are getting close to the point where it can create a Lexeme.
    • REST API: Continuing to work on the first endpoint to read Item data.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:22, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #511Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WDQS outage on 06 March: users may have unexpectedly had requests blocked. Incident report here.
  • Development
    • Getting ready for Data Reuse Days
    • Mismatch Finder: Discussing the next batches of potential mismatches with MusicBrainz data and some remaining Freebase data
    • Lexicographical data: Continuing work on the basic version of the new Special:NewLexeme page, focusing on putting in the base data about the new Lexeme
    • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:41, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • PodcastBot. Task/s: Upload new podcast episodes, extract: title, part of the series, has quality (explicit episode), full work available at (mp3), production code, apple podcast episode id, spotify episode ID. Regex extraction: talk show guest, recording date (from description)
      • AradglBot. Task/s: Create between 100,000 and 200,000 new lexemes in Aragonese language Q8765
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 3 (approved). Task/s: add dictionaries IDs to French lexemes
  • Tool of the week
    • Linked People project let's you explore the family trees of all known people at Wikipedia/Wikidata.
    • Gene of the Day (gene-wordle) uses Wikidata for gene names and crafting an answer list by number of sitelinks.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We're continuing with the work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on saving a valid new Lexeme with the new page. We are now focusing on the suggesters for language and lexical category so editors can select the right Item for them.
    • Data Reuse Days: We ran sessions on how to use Wikidata's data programmatically and the best practices around it. Slides and videos are available already (see above).
    • REST API: Continuing coding on the basic version of the GET Item endpoint. We have the very initial version of the get item endpoint ready and are now adding more parameters to it.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:14, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Scholia use profilesEdit

Hi Daniel! I hope you are well. Thanks for your recent comment about Jupyter notebook. Could you please tell me more about your work "improving the Scholia /use profiles"? The test case you mentioned looks amazing. -- Oa01 (talk) 08:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

@Oa01:, In essence, the underlying info stems from mining PubMed Central for mentions of Jupyter notebooks AND GitHub and then checking whether said notebooks can actually be found on GitHub. If that was the case, I tagged the paper as describing a project that uses Jupyter notebooks. For some other test cases, see the bottom panel at toolforge:scholia/P4510. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 17:34, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, Daniel. Very cool. Oa01 (talk) 19:33, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #513Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Scribe is a keyboard extension based on lexicographical data that can help users remember grammar rules (see blogpost above).
    • WorldlEH is a wordle clone in Basque.
  • Development
    • [Significant Change]: wbsearchentities changed to explicitly return display terms and matched term
    • Lexicographical data: Working on the lookup for language and lexical category and displaying potential errors during Lexeme creation
    • Improved the API response of the wbsearchentities endpoint by adding the language to the labels and descriptions in the API response (phab:T104344)
    • Data Reuse Days: Second and final week - organized, attended and held a few sessions incl. bug triage hour and pink pony session
    • REST API: Continuing work on getting the the data of an Item, we almost have filtering of the data returned by the API and basic error handling is in place. Next up: not returning the data if the client already has the most recent data, and authentication

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:59, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Open Definition conformant licenseEdit

Hi Daniel, this edit is incorrect. reference URL (P854) should never be used as a qualifier. Probably best to revert this batch. I wonder if instance of (P31) is really the right property to put Open Definition conformant license (Q30939938) in. Is this really the identity of the item? I would move it to complies with (P5009) which is a dedicated property to store this kind of data. Multichill (talk) 15:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

@Multichill: Thanks for the check, the fix and the suggestion. I am aware that P854 is not to be used as a qualifier, but I was distracted when I set up the batch, so mistyped an S as a P. When I noticed that the batch had mixed up the reference and qualifier tagging, I triggered a batch revert immediately, but this has not finished, and I do not know how I would get it to finish. So I will check the remnants and fix as much as possible. I share your concern about the use of P31 for tagging "Open Definition conformant license" and agree that P5009 (of which I hadn't been aware) could play a role here, but the combination "complies with" "Open Definition conformant license" still seems odd. I would say that this particular license is compliant with the Open Definition, and the nature of this compliance has something to do with "Open Definition conformant license" but I am not sure yet what the best way to model this would be. Also, my reasoning here is for now just based on the English labels. Maybe it makes some more sense in some of the other languages, which I have not checked yet. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 13:43, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
@Multichill: Turns out that DeltaBot has fixed the remaining cases. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:26, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
@Multichill: In terms of how to model the compliance, what about this way? --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 15:31, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
That looks like a nice solution. Multichill (talk) 16:28, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #514Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: APSbot 4: Task/s: Regularly create organizations from the Research Organization Registry (ROR - https://ror.org/) that are missing in Wikidata.
  • Tool of the week
    • Kyrksok.se is an app about Swedish churches based on Wikidata.
    • QAnswer is a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects. Who was the first to create liquid helium? Try it!
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page and focused on displaying sensible error messages if an error occurs during Lexeme creation. We're also working on adding a dropdown for the language variant.
    • REST API: Continued work on conditional requests and authorization
    • Made use of the new fields added in the wbsearchentities API and added language information to the markup of entity searches that you see when editing a statement or searching with the little searchbox at the top of the page on Wikidata. Now these search results should make a bit more sense to people who use screen readers.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 12:32, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #515Edit

 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Glitter another R package to write SPARQL queries and query Wikidata and other SPARQL endpoints. This package provides a domain specific language to write queries directly from R.
    • Conzept is a topic-exploration tool based on Wikidata and other information sources.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Continued work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We worked on displaying error messages and inferring the spelling variant from the language. We also looked into the non-JavaScript version of the page.
    • REST API: Worked on conditional requests (do not return data the client already has) and authorization.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:54, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

OberholserEdit

@Daniel Mietchen: there is a (Harry C. Oberholser (Q67349028)) and a Harry C. Oberholser (Harry C. Oberholser (Q39626)). Wonder if you could take a look at this. Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 11:16, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

@Lotje: Thanks for the ping. I merged these two items. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 01:21, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #516Edit

 
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  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Pi admin bot (RfP scheduled to end after 20 April 2022 17:58 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Stang (successful)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Bird O'Clock! is a tool based on Wikidata and other data sources that shows pictures and numbers from actual people counting actual birds in the actual world!
    • Tiago's Coin Herbarium is a coin collection depicting different plant information displayed via Wikidata SPARQL queries.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on inferring the spelling variant from the language's Item on the new Special:NewLexeme page and started building a little help box on the special page to explain what lex. data is.
    • REST API: Getting closer to having a first version of the REST API that returns Item data.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:41, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #517Edit

 
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  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship:
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Wikitaxa is a software of taxonomy data written in R.
    • User:So9q/fatcat-link.jsscrip is a userscript for looking up fatcat! DOIs. It adds a link to the fatcat! database in the Tools' section on items.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: Worked on showing the name of language variants in the language variant selector and added the new information box to help people get a better understanding of lex. data.
    • REST API: Finished the initial implementation of the endpoint for getting data for a full Item and discussed feedback, testing and roll-out plans.

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518Edit

 
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  • Development
    • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
    • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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quickstatements; temporary_batch_1633294882827Edit

Hi Daniel! Can you please check to see what did go wrong with this batch? For example: [2] -- Meisam (talk) 07:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for checking, Meisam, and for the ping. That batch made only a single edit, which was to create that page. This seems to be correct to me. However, I agree that the item would benefit from further annotation, so I added a bit more. Note that the item was originally created for author (P50) statements, the result of which you can explore, for instance, via their Scholia profile. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 19:56, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for taking care of it. I think for these type of items, having a claim like occupation:researcher or a similar thing would have helped a lot. Cheers! -- Meisam (talk) 09:33, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
@Meisam: I opted for occupation: author and did a few batches (example). --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 00:23, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #519Edit

 
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  • Discussions
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
  • Development
    • REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
    • We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).

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author vs researcherEdit

Hi Daniel,

I wonder if this is correct to add author (Q482980) for occupation (P106) for example Katarzyna Danis-Wlodarczyk (Q71100537). author (Q482980) is described as "author or intellectual author of a linguistic work". The reference for this claim is stated in (P248) and a scholarly article. Kpjas (talk) 08:20, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #520Edit

 
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  • Tool of the week
  • Development

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